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	ARSENAL IN LAST-CHANCE SALOON
	Defeat at Chelsea on Sunday left Arsenal nine points behind the leaders, and if they are to have any part in the title race, the sense is that they must close the gap in mid-week.

	INTER LOOK TO EXTEND SERIE A LEAD
	A near-fatal blow to the few doubts concerning the title race could come Wednesday from Parma, where the promoted hosts face the titanic task of slowing down the pace of Serie A leaders Inter.

	MINNOWS LOOK TO CONTINUE CUP FAIRY TALE
	The three remaining lower division clubs still involved in the German Cup are looking for a continuation of their fairy tale run as the quarter-finals take place on Wednesday.

	PSG LOOK TO BOUNCE BACK
	Struggling Paris St Germain are looking to bounce back from a 3-0 home defeat to Lorient when they face fourth-tier Vesoul in a Coupe de France last-16 clash.

	AMERICA'S CUP OPENER CANCELLED
	A lack of wind on Monday led organisers to cancel the first race of the 33rd America's Cup, pitting defending Swiss champions Alinghi against US side Oracle in a best-of-three series.

TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH AT THE AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS

At a first glance, the story of the 27th Africa Cup of Nations that ended Sunday with Egypt's 1-0 victory over Ghana in the final in the Angolan capital of Luanda is easily told.

It started with tragedy when the team bus carrying the Togo squad to their base in Cabinda came under armed attack from Cabinda separatists. The assistant coach and the team's media officer were killed, while several others, including players were injured.

It ended in triumph when Egypt became the first country in the history of the competition to win the tournament three times in a row, bringing their total number of victories at the showpiece of African football to seven.
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STARS READY TO SHINE AT VANCOUVER OLYMPICS

Can Vancouver produce the equivalent of a Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps? The imponderables of winter sport - where changeable weather conditions or the vagaries of a judge's marks can prove decisive - make predictions difficult.

But the 2010 Games has several athletes with the potential to scoop up medals, as sprinter Bolt and swimmer Phelps did at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.
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HAMBURG DELIGHT IN VAN NISTELROOY SCOOP

Former Argentina captain Juan Pablo Sorin spent more time buying poetry in a local bookshop than on the football field during his two years at SV Hamburg.

Sorin was a fan favourite in the 24 games he played for the Bundesliga club but a knee injury ended his time there in 2008. The bookshop staff is still raving about him.

Now Hamburg have landed an even bigger scoop by luring Dutch superstriker Ruud van Nistelrooy to the port city.
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GROGGY JUVE FALL AWAY FROM SERIE A UPPER TIERS

A good friend of Ciro Ferrara recently compared the Juventus coach to Rocky, the hero of Sylvester Stallone's boxing saga who would keep standing and fighting no matter how hard he got punched.

Although Ferrara himself agreed with the comparison, his team has been looking more like a knocked-out boxer with no energies left to get back on his feet.
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WOLVES HITMEN SET NEW BUNDESLIGA RECORD

Few will argue that it was a combined team effort and strong determination which led to VfL Wolfsburg claiming their maiden Bundesliga title.

But the one contribution that stands out the most is certainly the amazing run of their strikers.

At the start of the season, Edin Dzeko and Grafite were not anonymous to Bundesliga fans, but few would have expected them to break a 37-year-old record by the end of the campaign.
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THE DOORSIES!

It is the moment you have all been waiting for, when Early Doors looks back on another season of idiocy, vanity and downright ineptitude and picks its worst of the worst.

That's right - it's the second annual Doorsie awards!!

Worst signing

Jimmy Bullard (Hull City)

Everybody's favourite shaggy-haired midfielder was hailed as a bargain when Hull signed him in January.
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TEAM OF THE SEASON: HAIL GERRARD

Steven Gerrard scooped his second gong in as many weeks with the Liverpool skipper taking our player of the season award.

HOW IT WORKS

We tot up the marks out of 10 awarded in five national newspapers - The Sun, The Mirror, The Mail, The Times and The Guardian - to create a total out of 50. The top player in each position will be rewarded with a spot in the Team of the Week, while the worst scorers will be named and shamed in our Flops XI.
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PAUL GASCOIGNE - FACTFILE

The life and times of Paul Gascoigne, who admitted that his heart stopped beating while in rehab recently.

1967: Born, Gateshead, May 27.

1983: Joins Newcastle as an apprentice.
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60 SECONDS WITH JASON LEONARD

England's World Cup-winning hero and all-round geezer Jason Leonard gave us a minute of his time...

If you were one of the A-Team, who would you be?

Normally people would probably say Mr T, because he's tough. Which one was the smooth one, Face?
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